Ageing in Sub-Saharan Africa : : Spaces and Practices of Care / / ed. by Jaco Hoffman, Katrien Pype.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Baart, Andries,; Calasanti, Toni,; Freeman, Emily,; Hoffman, Jaco,; Obrist, Brigit,; Phillipson, Chris,; Pype, Katrien,; Scharf, Thomas,; de Klerk, Josien,; van Eeuwijk, Peter,; van der Geest, Sjaak,
• HerausgeberIn: Hoffman, Jaco,; Pype, Katrien,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Ageing in a Global Context
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 2 Black and White

This collection of in-depth ethnographic analysis examines the impact of local and global transformations on the care, or lack of care, older people receive in Sub-Saharan Africa. This volume provides the pan-African evidence and analysis needed to move forward debates about how to address the long...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Contents
• Lists of photos, figures and tables
• Notes on contributors
• Series preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Spaces and practices of care for older people in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Will families in Ghana continue to care for older people? Logic and contradiction in policy
• Caring for people ‘without’ value: movement, reciprocity and respect in Kinshasa’s retirement homes
• Older people providing care for older people in Tanzania: against conventions – but accepted
• Place matters: the home as a key site of old-age care in coastal Tanzania
• Care and identity in rural Malawi
• Making sense of neglect in northwest Tanzania
• Negotiating care for older people in South Africa: between the ideal and the pragmatics
• Afterword: Discourses of care for older people in Sub-Saharan Africa: towards conceptual development
• Index